Contents:
Introduction,
Albert Classen. Varying degrees of light - Bonaventure and the medieval book of nature,
Ashlynn K.Pai. Reading that transforms: Virgil's hero reborn in 12th-century vernacular representations,
Raymond Cormier. Reading and the book: frame and story in the old French Dolopathos,
Penny Simons. The book and reading in medieval high German literature,
Albert Classen. Book metaphors in the textual community,
Jean-Marie Kauth. The language of the text: authorship and textuality in
Pearl, The Divine Comedy and
Piers Plowman, Burt Kimmelman. Building Christian narrative: the rhetoric of knowledge, revelation and interpretation in
Libro de Apolonio, Patricia E.Grieve. Chaucer's literate characters reading their texts - interpreting infinite regression, or the narcissus syndrome,
Jean E.Jost. Story, picture and reading in Wynkyn de Worde's
Vitas Patrum, Sue Ellen Holbrook. Reading the virgin reader,
David Linton. Maria Legens-Maria Legere. St Marys as an ideal reader and St Mary as a textbook,
Winfred Frey.